Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1887-01-20
CURRENT TOPICS.

PETROLEUM has been discovered in pal.
estine, Tex. :
BRookIrS is threatened with an epidemic
of smallpox.
ILLINOIS has seven lady county superin.
tendents Of schools.
SENATOR BRowN, Of Georgia. saws he has
no idea Of resigning.
The present winter is the coldest for
years in Washington.
THIS month has five Sundays, with four
changes of tho moon
LONDON workmen are crying: "Give us
work or give US breadri
THERr is an increase of Mexican ore com
ing into the United states
THE ice crop in this country promises "a,
be extraordinarily abundant
1T is said the Mormon lobby in Washing
ton has already cost the church s250,ooo.
SAM SMALL has returned To journalism,
having taken charge OF the Southern Eran.
geiisf.
KING KALAKAuA received no fewer than
five copies OF the Bible on his fiftieth ami,
versary.
GOVERNOR LEE, OF Virginia, is credited
with being the champion checlSer-player OF
the South
In New York City there are coo families
who receive help from charitable associa-
tons and the city.
In Scranton, Pa, tho authorities propose
to prosecute physician who lost a patient
through carelessness.
A GOLDEN throne, presented by the people
OF Naples, has been sent 10 Rome as ju-
bilee gift 20 the Pope.
nj. PAsrEUR is TO retire from active
practice soon TO avoid paralysis, with
which he is threatened.
III is said that at the last Gladstone birth
day ball Miss Helen Gladstone danced with
her fathers coachman.
THE Post-ofllce Department has refused
to sanction the naming of post-ofiices aftor
Sitting Bull and Geronimo.
HANS HAwsEN, Of Minnesota, has n
daughter twelve years old, who has plowed
ll2 acres Of his farm for him.
EIGHr thousand dollars was found in an
old apron of venerable woman who died
at Port Pleasant, n. j., lately
NINE persons who are between ono hun
dred and one hundred and nine yeers OF
age died in Philadelphia last year.
THE Prohibitionists have one hundred
and twenty-nine organs in the United
States TO the liquor dealers eight.
Ara party in Middletown, Conn, the
guests piled their wraps on bed, fatally
smothoring a baby which was asleep in the
bed.
THE oldest library In the world is that Of
Kwotoze-Kicn, which was established dur.
ing the Chow dynasty in China (B. c.,
ll22).
ISthc United States three newspapers
are devoted 10 the sillS-worm, six to the
honey-bee, and not less than thirty-two TO
poultry.
The Empress OF Austria and Queen Olga
Of Greece, are said TO be about the only
reigning women in Europe who can be
called beautiful.
THREE women fully qualified and accred-
tied to practice medicine lately sailed for
India, where there is said 10 be great de-
mand for their services.
THE fish hatchery at Petoskey, Mich. has
222, 100000 young white fish waiting to be
planted in the spring. The output will be
larger than ever before.
A CHICAGO butcher admits that two.
thirds Of the canned meat sold in the mar.
kets there as chicken is in reality the meat
of rabbits that have been long frozen.
QUEEN VICTORIA has received fortune
OF 81, 10000 through the death Of William
Heathcote, of Hillingdon, ne diving intos-
tate and without any known relatEcs.
AN Engiishman i'm Colorado who was
without means blew out his brains just two
minutes before friend came in with a let
ter from home inclosing him a draft for
$1,000
AT the recent meeting Of tho Ministerial
Council, the Car declared that he would
have no war, and actually shook his fist at
81 b. t.f
belicose views.
THE Queen mother OF Spain has made an
agreement with her creditors by which
she keeps S2OOOOO Of her revenue aud they
tahe the remaining $4,000. Hor life IL
heavily insured.
THE thermometers at Fort Keogh, Mont,
a few days ago, nearly had the bottoms
knocked out OF them, the mercury going
down 20 fifty degrees below zerO-the cold
est Of the season.
LITTLE Delaware seems 10 be well pre-
pared for rainy day. Its debt is only
sS24,750, and against this u has interest
bearing assets 10 the amount Of Sl,iGs H9,
LEGISLATOR CALLA0HAS, Of Westmore-
land County, Pa, is catching IL at homo for
making a motion that prayer be dispensed
with by the House. There il talk Of apo.
tition for ais resignation.
TnEEs are seven hundred religious and
UNCONVENTIONAL papers published in tho
United States. and nearly ono third OF
them are printed In New York, Piiiladoi
phia, Boston and Chicago.
The Giving skeleton" Isaac W. Sprague
died In Chicago Of asphyxia He was one
Of the greatest freaks m the world Five
years ago he sold his body TO the Harvard
medical college for 81 600
a NAV IN Ontario can repeat perfeotiy
iGG chapters Of the Bible, 4 M y eight psalms
and every collect, epistle and gospel IN The
ecclesiastical year, according 10 the Eng
lish Church Prayer Book.
OK pair Of stills falso on n wagorj, q
young man crossed the ice on tho Hudson
river az Rhineclife, ". Y, recently,
and won by making the entire sistaaoe
nearly two miles, without a fall
SHoEPEGs require 10000 cords of timber
annually in their manufacture; matches
10000; lasts and boot trees, 5O0000. All
thisis Of the most superior quality, straight
grained and clear Of knots and gnarls,
THE Supreme Court decided a cause
against tho King Of Belgium, a fow days aea
II his Royal Highness does not like United
States justice, he can skinny on his own
siden Of the water hereafter.
DR. Wm1oU0HBY WALLIS0, OF Indianap
oils late Of Louisville, has been appointed
United States Consul at Leith, Scotland
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